I knew that it would be the case and I still went for it because of the benefits like the processing power and battery efficiency, but having been with Apple since 2007 (yes, the switch to Intel), I am not overly enthusiastic about the Apple hardware not being universal anymore. On the other hand I have not yet see any issues with the new MacBook with the M1 chip other than the inherent limitations of Apple's ARM-based architecture where it comes to running other OS's and a few apps simply not working. I tried it twice thinking there may be something I missed, but nope. ![]() Then I created the USB installer for Bir Sur, wiped the drive clean and reinstalled Big Sur all by itself. And yes, I did reinstall macOS once I noticed the issue after the original in-place upgrade to Big Sur. Sure, these work, but at least for the Recovery boot I should not have to use any workarounds. But yes, there are work arounds for both issues: I can use a USB Big Sur installation media for booting into Recovery and I can switch between Windows and macOS by booting with the Option key pressed. ![]() Can I live without these? Well, I do need to boot into Linux and that's why I kept the old Intel MacBook. Also, the new integrity protections don't let rEFInd boot loader workĪnd will prevent macOS to boot if installed. I upgraded the Intel one to Big Sur and overall there are no big issues EXCEPT the fact that there is no Recovery partition anymore - Command+R boots into Internet Recovery which is for an old El Capitan OSX not even Big Sur. I have a MacBook Pro M1 and and 2015 MacBook Pro.
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